gau looks like fun - not sure if it will reveal anything, but may be fun for you to have a go.
I did have a think about brute force, but just using the old AAA111 syntax, there are 26^3*10^3 = is about 17 million possible IDs to check, and to do a download or even check if there is a valid file takes around 1 sec each for the network call (a bit less, but not much less). Also, most 'interesting' files (those someone wanted to share) were probably published to the old forum so this archive of 7000 odd files which we have is a good resource - I wrote a prog to get them all and save in a folder with original date attribute and a comment in the top of each file about which forum thread it came from with thread author (data originally scraped by Scout I think). I can then search these (and my cases) using SB-Prime file searcher.
There are the files on Facebook or files with the more recent ID indexing which I don't have many of, after the demise of old forum.
EDIT
gau http://smallbasic.com/program does find around 1126 files - so not all of them, but maybe those most downloaded or something?
I did have a think about brute force, but just using the old AAA111 syntax, there are 26^3*10^3 = is about 17 million possible IDs to check, and to do a download or even check if there is a valid file takes around 1 sec each for the network call (a bit less, but not much less). Also, most 'interesting' files (those someone wanted to share) were probably published to the old forum so this archive of 7000 odd files which we have is a good resource - I wrote a prog to get them all and save in a folder with original date attribute and a comment in the top of each file about which forum thread it came from with thread author (data originally scraped by Scout I think). I can then search these (and my cases) using SB-Prime file searcher.
There are the files on Facebook or files with the more recent ID indexing which I don't have many of, after the demise of old forum.
EDIT
gau http://smallbasic.com/program does find around 1126 files - so not all of them, but maybe those most downloaded or something?
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